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Villa Medici chronicles
Stories of Art and Life in 19th Century Rome
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During her residency as a resident at the French Academy of Rome – Villa Medici in 2019-2020, Sara Vitacca is researching the lesser-known, even “hidden”, stories of the Villa Médicis, devoting a series of podcasts to them. These podcasts have given rise to the book Les Chroniques de la Villa Médicis: histoires d’art et de vie à Rome au XIXe siècle, published by Editions Palombi with the support of the Académie de France in Rome.
Visitors to the Villa Medici, a place steeped in history and mystery in the Pincio hills, will no doubt wonder who once lived there, strolled in the gardens, or dreamed of a brilliant career in one of its great studios. This book is aimed at this curious public, giving voice to the forgotten or little-known stories of this Villa, through the lives, habits and creations of the artists who came to live in Rome, at the Académie de France, in the 19th century. Between intimate dramas and political revolutions, social evenings and epidemics, the daily lives of these artists are not so far removed from our own, and the story of the Villa Medici is even more fascinating than the myth that surrounds it.
159 pages
EAN 9788860609564
Sara Vitacca
Sara Vitacca, born in Brescia in 1988, lives and works in Paris. After graduating from high school in Italy in 2007, she studied art history at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2018, she defended a doctoral thesis entitled Un mythe à l’œuvre: la réception de Michel-Ange entre 1875 et 1914, under the supervision of Pierre Wat. Winner of the Daniel Arasse scholarship in 2017, she was a lecturer in art history at Université Paris 1, then A.T.E.R. at ENS Lyon, and has also taught at Université Catholique de l’Ouest and Institut National du Patrimoine. In 2016, she co-curated and wrote the catalog for the exhibition Bacchanales Modernes! The Nude, Drunkenness and Dance in Nineteenth-Century French Art e siècle, presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and the Palais Fesch, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Ajaccio, and in 2018 edited the proceedings of the colloquium accompanying the exhibition. Her research and publications focus on 19th-century painting, sculpture and art historiography, as well as on the reception of antique and Renaissance models in the contemporary period. Her residency project at Villa Medici focuses on representations of the male nude in early 20th-century Italian art, in the work of artists such as Aristide Sartorio, Adolfo de Carolis, Edoardo Gioja and Hendrik Christian Andersen. She studies the construction of the virile, heroic body in monumental painting and sculpture of the period, in order to examine the ideological, social and political issues involved in reinvesting the male body.
In parallel with this project, she is developing a series of podcasts for the general public, devoted to 19th-century art and the forgotten stories of the Villa Medici.
